Last updated 05 Jun 05.
Due to numerous user requests, I have started a work-in-progress unofficial Thunderbird 1.1 changelog on the upcoming features and significant bugfixes in the future 1.1 release. The official Thunderbird 2.0 roadmap should also provide more information on 1.1. Edit: Most of these features are already working well in 1.1 Alpha 1. Do post bug reports of potential bugs in bugzilla as soon as possible.
New Features
- 2920: Delete attachments from emails
- 16360: Auto-saved drafts
- 189363: Support for network timeouts
- 240600 : Improved spell check engine
- 258102: OPML import support (support for export of OPML format has not yet been implemented)
- 262626: add UI to open about:config
- 278310, 278312: Inline spell checker
- 282174: Podcasting support
- 282500: Phishing detector
- 284144: Options UI redesigned using new Firefox widgets + styles
Notable Bugfixes
UI Fixes
Crashes
- 269554: going from tbird 0.8 -> 0.9 or 1.0 hangs with huge POP mail folders
- 273560: Crash when selecting inbox after selecting saved search folder before search complete
- 284699: [Win95] Thunderbird 1.0 crash when started for the first time
Functionality
- 288871: Problems entering addresses in new mail composition
Neil's Smaller World | 02-Jun-05 at 1:44 am | Permalink
What’s new in Thunderbird 1.1
What’s new in Thunderbird 1.1. Namely anti-phishing protection, podcasting support and a way of accessing about:config….
Daniel | 03-Jun-05 at 5:49 am | Permalink
Hi there,
Here’s an idea for Thunderbird:
How about an interface adjustment to the mail column (I use the three column layout) like Outlook for Windows where you can view email organized by today, this week, etc.
Thought it would be nice.
Mike | 03-Jun-05 at 6:14 am | Permalink
Here is another idea: how about the ability to have a different sound (.wav file) play for incoming email messages that are based on specific email addresses (much like Eudora offers). Also, how about a sound when new RSS feeds are ingested? Then TB would totally rock!
Markus | 03-Jun-05 at 7:02 am | Permalink
Hi Daniel,
Just press ‘g’ and your inbox will be grouped by day (if your current sorting is by date), or by sender, etc. (you can also reach this using View->Sort by->Grouped Sort)
Serge | 03-Jun-05 at 7:31 am | Permalink
For 2.0 – I would like a nicer and more extended forms for entering addresses like in M$-Outlook, Evolution or Kontakt. With for instance 3 three or more addresses, a lot of phonenumbers etc. Also an automatic postalcode placer based on country as in M$-Outlook or Kontact should be nice or international use.
For the rest it is a great mailer and Firefox is a great browser.
Mozinet | 03-Jun-05 at 12:36 pm | Permalink
You don’t talk about inline spellchecking ?
Bug 58612 – Need realtime spellchecking mechanism.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58612
Bug 278312 – Inline Spell Checker Back End
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278312
Bug 278310 – Inline Spell Check Front End for compose
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278310
J Jansen | 03-Jun-05 at 12:42 pm | Permalink
Hi,
There needs to be the ability to import thunderbird email. Example:
I go from windows to Linux…I need to be able to import my email from windows thunderbird to Linux thunderbird and back again.
STEFANO DEMILIANI WeBlog | 03-Jun-05 at 3:58 pm | Permalink
Thunderbird will add Podcasting features
Michael | 03-Jun-05 at 4:33 pm | Permalink
Why can’t somone add \FLAGGED filter support for IMAP?
It has, AFAIK, been pointed out serveral times but noone seems to be able to add it…
Stephan Lauffer | 03-Jun-05 at 6:03 pm | Permalink
Hi!
where’s the sieve(rfc3028) api and the imap extended alc support (rfc3505)?
(:
I’ll open a big bottle of champagner if thunderbird will support this in the future…
greetings,
Stephan
Jean-Marc | 03-Jun-05 at 6:21 pm | Permalink
Hi,
I can’t use a mouse and find it impossible to reorganise my contacts in the adress book.
Could it be possible to have a contextual menu entry on a contact that says “send to …” so as to move it to a folder or sub-folder, just as you would for a message.
It would be a great thing to make blind person switch to Thunderbird.
Thanks all.
Oberon | 03-Jun-05 at 7:33 pm | Permalink
I would still like to see a post-send filtering option so outgoing mail can be filed automatically in the subfolder to which it belongs.
Bart | 03-Jun-05 at 7:50 pm | Permalink
Sounds all great. Just a question if Thunderbird 1.1 has realtime spelling what about a check of attachments by typed text:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=266225
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=270901
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=273452
Cliff | 03-Jun-05 at 10:13 pm | Permalink
I would just like the custom new mail sound option in OSX to actually work!
neek. word. | 04-Jun-05 at 12:42 am | Permalink
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.1 Alpha 1 released
Like the Deer Park Alpha 1 preview of Mozilla Firefox 1.1 released earlier, Thunderbird 1.1 Alpha 1 is intended for developers and testers only. End-users should stick with Thunderbird 1.0.x for now. Major new features in Thunderbird 1.1 Alpha 1…
Kevin Quiggle | 04-Jun-05 at 2:21 am | Permalink
The Thunderbird 2.0 Roadmap says that one of the 1.1 goals is “Support forward and reply from message filters.” I don;t see this optin in the current 1.1 release; am I missing this, is it coming later, or…?
Abel Ramirez | 04-Jun-05 at 7:34 am | Permalink
Hi there!!!
Some times I have to send a E-mail in a couple of days, so if the next version of TB have this feature would be rock, like write an E-mail today and program it to send it the next june 15 I hope you understand it (sorry my english) havea nice day, greetings from Cancun!!!
Harry den Dekker | 04-Jun-05 at 5:57 pm | Permalink
There is something that would really set Thunderbird apart from other mail clients for me. As a European I often need diacriticals like Î È and more. (Some I cannot even enter here because Firefox interprets them as commands: eg ALT-0246.) This has been a shortcoming throughout the computer industry for decades now. Solutions are around — if somebody would only make an effort and standardize and implement these. MS-WORD does an excellent job here: Ctrl+: followed by e becomes Î.
Harry den Dekker | 04-Jun-05 at 6:00 pm | Permalink
Somebody should put the clock right somewhere: I entered my previous comment at 0857 GMT and it shows as June 4, 2005 05:57 PM. I am assuming that it is off by 12 hours.
Jan! | 05-Jun-05 at 2:39 am | Permalink
Stefan: why do you want support for “RFC 3505 (rfc3505) – Electronic Commerce Modeling Language”?
skywalker: thanks for doing this!
Alexandre | 05-Jun-05 at 3:11 am | Permalink
Hi!
It would be nice to have an ability to minimize Thunderbird to the system tray. Otherwise there is no advantage of using periodical mail check.
Thanx.
Mikhail Esteves | 05-Jun-05 at 7:19 am | Permalink
I would love if you could provide a “Switch between HTML/Plain Text” button in the Compose window. It’s painful to get into settings everytime I need to send that occassional HTML email…
Dave C. | 05-Jun-05 at 8:46 am | Permalink
I would like to be able to preview emails on the server, like Foxmail, i.scribe, etc and delete them without having to download them.
asdf | 05-Jun-05 at 8:56 am | Permalink
@Mikhail: Just switch HTML mail on by default, it will ask you on send if you want to send as html or plain text.
, the devs won’t read the blog comments here.
@Rest: This blog post is no request for new features
math | 05-Jun-05 at 6:23 pm | Permalink
I hope 1.1 can get the TABbed Feature from firefox. To open more then 1 mailbox same time (from same or different servers). like mulberry mail client do
regards and thanks
math
Dan Mosedale | 07-Jun-05 at 3:24 am | Permalink
Also in 1.1a1: it is now possible to customize LDAP attributes for the Addressbook: see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119291 for details.
peter kˆnig | 07-Jun-05 at 6:26 am | Permalink
Hi,
what about a global search in thunderbird finally?
every email-client can grab me all the information from all my accounts – but none helps me find it again, including thunderbird.
thank you,
peter
Mabsterama | 07-Jun-05 at 8:55 am | Permalink
Thunderbird’s RSS Features
The alpha preview of Thunderbird 1.1 was released the other day, so I thought I’d grab it to see how…
Paul | 10-Jun-05 at 8:27 am | Permalink
Yes, different .wav files for each email address would be great. I use a morse .wav generator and from a distance in the house can hear which account has received mail (but this is in PopTray – which I use [with TB closed]). PopTray unfortunately is only for windows but sits in the task bar and can take many accounts and only uses 60k of RAM.
Regards, keep up the great work! Paul.
John Navas | 10-Jun-05 at 9:04 am | Permalink
Thunderbird 1.1 Alpha 1 is excellent! I highly recommend it even to end-users, not just developers.
Jiri | 11-Jun-05 at 7:34 pm | Permalink
It would be nice to use a deeper contacts tree structure
to search or filter by items in it
for example:
Sender | is in contacts | Personal – Company – Sales